Oh Dear: Who needs science ?

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Listen bretheren,

We at New Labour have been working hard to make a new more inclusive society.

We are the people's party and so we listen.

If Mr Bin Laden (no relation to the nasty Osama - well OK, his brother) offers to pay £XXX billion into the housekeeping fund, it is only fair that we take it and agree to everything he says.

If he finds science offends his beliefs then we are no better than that dreadful Saddam if we carry on with no regard to his feelings.

We are always ready to listen, and act what the more "generous" members of the congregation have to say. Please send any suggestions to:

New Labour
Kashinhand Towers
Bucks
CA5H TA

TB

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earlier this year it was reported not enough ethnic minorities are using visiting the Lake District

ethnic minorities aren't daft and I bet they are still doing the science courses and leaving the local chavs to do the trendy media courses

in a few years the chav population will wonder why all jobs requiring more than being able to use a calculator are held by ethinic minorities

Milan.

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Why would anyone chose a life science career these days? A friend will soon be a postdoc biochemist looking for a post in cancer research. In london she's looking at around 21k and after several years might make it up to late 20s. They pay more to the graduate fund raisers or if she hadn't bothered to get an education (in an area where we arent exactly over endowed) she could have 30k to drive a bloody tube train for less than 35 hours a week.

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In the coming years we will form an elite priesthood dispensing wisdom to the masses

Cue Chico....

I agree

Agree with Numpty. It only makes me want to deepen my already technical education. In the coming years we will form an elite priesthood dispensing wisdom to the masses

This is excellent news for all those working in maths related jobs

This does not bode well for the youth of today does it? They are undereducated now without losing vital science subjects from the curricullum. Someone was saying the other day that at English A' Level now you are NOT marked down for bad spelling

saying they were "19th-century" disciplines

This is indeed a dark day. First you aren't allowed to enjoy the stash of 70s Penthouse mags you inherited from your mate's father during a camping expedition in 1990 because the nation has no common sense and is in a moral panic, and then some plank with a position of responsibility announces that science is 19th century.

Hell in a hand-basket, hell in a hand-basket.

I think Science will win Big Brother

Plenty of people do without Science. Take Chico for example.

From the article:

Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), warned against getting into a "moral panic" when a university physics or chemistry department was threatened with closure, saying they were "19th-century" disciplines.

:rollin

That's what happens when a Scientist dares to disagree with a government department...

It won't happen again...

Media Studies is where all the action is these days. Anyway, these scientists, eh, what do they know?

More university science courses likely to closes

Milan.